First gaming rig.

Melax

Melax

Melax

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Hello,

My friend swears by Overclockers so I have come for some guidance. Im rather useless with technology and although ive been told building your own PC is comparable to assembling lego I would rather have it prebuilt for me.

I have lurked around for a few days on the forums and some benchmarking sites (anandtech etc) and have decided OC's http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-176-OE would probably be the most cost efficient. I would be looking to use a gtx 570 a card upgrade.

I have a budget of £1000 - looking to be able to play BF3 (i dont know if my expectations are too high for my budget) and Skyrim on high-max settings and for now will be using it for Witcher 1 and 2.

Wondering what advice / reassurance you can offer. Or maybe you can convince me to build my own PC!

Also hi this is my first post so play nice :o:)
 
If you would consider building it yourself you would save several hundred pounds. Its not difficult ( I am 17 and can do it so its not hard :L ) and there are literally thousands of videos on how to build them step by step. Plus any problems you run into just post on the forums and there will be loads of people willing to help.
also welcome to the forums :)
Andrew
 
I would definitely build yourself, I did it a few years ago and never looked back. As already mentioned there is plenty of guides, there is one a sticky in this forum above.
 
RJC said:
I would definitely build yourself, I did it a few years ago and never looked back. As already mentioned there is plenty of guides, there is one a sticky in this forum above.
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how up to date are the components in the mid level intel build? i'll probably go for building my own now
 
Spec it's self is most up to date at the moment, AMD is due to launch Bulldozer but when is the big question and how it would perform against the sandybrige is speculation at the moment.
 
Indeed, I've found these forums most useful. Once you build your first rig you won't be able to stop. It's good fun and rewarding - you should start a build thread as well :)
 
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any reason i shouldnt press proceed? :)
 
thanks for the swift replies. ive switched those items out for ones you have recommended. do you think there is anything else i should change? I have a budget of 1000 and it comes to around £750 atm
 
Could add in an SSD and upgrade to Z68 mobo, 8GB RAM, improve the graphics card to a 570 but these would all be luxuries so only if you really want to spend the extra cash, the build above will cope with most things thrown at it.
 
in regards to an SSD i was concerned about having a limited number of writes but i really havent looked into them properly
 
Melax said:
in regards to an SSD i was concerned about having a limited number of writes but i really havent looked into them properly
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Well it's now tried and tested ... Lifespan should be around 10 years and you would have upgraded long before then

If it's really no SSD then splash out on a sexy case ....

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x Silverstone Fortress 2 FT02B-W Windowed Gaming Case - Black £219.98
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x Lepa B-Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £72.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £69.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
1 x Antec Kuhler Box High Performance CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £16.99
Total : £1,008.40 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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